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Quick update: today I've released Y PPA Manager 0.9.9 with support for Linux Mint 15 Olivia as well as the latest Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander (currently under development).

For those not familiar with Y PPA Manager, this is a tool that lets you easily add, remove or purge PPAs as well as search for packages in Launchpad PPAs, a feature that should be very useful when you can't find a PPA for your favourite app on WebUpd8 or other similar websites. Other features include:

list the packages available in a PPA added on your system;

download packages from PPAs without adding them;

PPAs backup / restore, along with all the PPA keys;

update single repositories using a command line tool (by the way, when you add a PPA using Y PPA Manager, it's updated without updating all the software sources) called "update-ppa" - usage example: "sudo update-ppa ppa:webupd8team/java";

some options that should help you re-enable the working PPAs when upgrading to a newer Ubuntu / Linux Mint version;

The Linux Mint 15 and Ubuntu 13.10 (useful even if you don't use Saucy: you can search Launchpad for a certain package to see if it's available in a PPA for Saucy) support are the only changes in this release. Because Linux Mint 15 ships with a custom "add-apt-repository" command, it took a bit more to get Y PPA Manager to work with it, but all should be working now. Even though Linux Mint 15 ships with a new Software Sources app which lets you easily add PPAs and so on, you should still find Y PPA Manager useful for its PPA search feature, among others.